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S3 Reverend Richard Coles: ‘Our life is rounded by sleep’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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The Importance of Comfort

Every day it is like he has brought me a bunch of flowers and a technical challenge. David used to kind of put things together in my wardrobe so I wouldn't go out looking an old frump. It's quite late into the book or perhaps in retrospect further in than I was expecting that you actually talk about the illness, the specific illness that David had. Is it important that you introduce him to us as David who is ill and not David who is suffering from alcoholism? Was that important to you? One was David like most addicts, one of the ways the addiction worked was by defending itself from admission. So David would never, he would have hated the idea of anyone confronting him or

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